Three years felt like six around here. I've set up a blueprint, and gotten Freddie Mac back to regular quarterly reporting. Now it's up to other people to carry it out.

Our managing partners have regular quarterly meetings with all partners to make sure we're staying aligned with the goals of the organization.

We have made substantial progress in fixing our financial reporting infrastructure, but our work is not done. Getting this infrastructure to the point where it can support timely, reliable quarterly reporting continues to be an enormously complex task.

One more hit of crack cocaine on these earnings. I felt we were so addicted to our quarterly earnings that we were selling our future revenue potential.

It felt like six miles,

I felt like I was able to dictate, and once I did that he might have gotten a little down on himself, ... I was able to take a couple of risks early on. I think I hit a couple of clean winners off first serves from him and that can rattle you early.